I should probably collect a list of the best romantic poems ever written, and maybe I will. This is not that. I mostly talk about writing books, but I noticed most of the other big writing sites actually get most of the their traffic from this keyword, because everybody is interested in romantic poetry! When you want to tell her how you feel, but don’t have the words to express all that emotion…
I’m actually playing around with a love poem generator, so you can write unique poetry in a flash. It should be pretty cool. Today I was just playing around with random prompts and examples, and figured I’d post them here. I’m adding romantic artwork I’ve made in midjourney. They’re a little weird, because I write dark fantasy novels.
write a romantic poem in the style of emily dickinson
A love that I can’t explain
A feeling I can barely contain
My heart so full of emotion
My feelings, so often in motion
It’s like a sweet summer’s breeze
Weaving through the trees
Bringing with it a gentle calm
A feeling that can do no harm
The way it fills me with joy
As if I’m a new found toy
My heart so full of bliss
I’m at a complete loss for words
The perfect love for me
Is the one that sets me free
Where I can be myself
And know that I’m loved for me
Your love is like a warm embrace
Filling me with grace
Your kindness shines so bright
That I am filled with delight
Your love so full of life
It’s like a never-ending light
It brings me comfort and peace
A feeling that will never cease
write a rhyming creative romance poem
My love for you, like a river, flows
My heart it swells, as I’m exposed
To your beauty, like a star, aglow
Your presence, like a melody, I know
Your words, like sweet honey, they roll
My soul they touch, my love they console
Your laughter, like the music of birds
My soul it stirs and my heart it heard
Your beauty, like a rainbow, divine
My eyes they marvel, my heart they entwine
Your kiss, like a flame, it burns
A love, like no other, for me it yearns
My love for you, ever true
My heart, forever, belongs to you.
write a rhyming love poem
Desire beauty, my girlfriend sweet,
The kind I will never forget.
Your soft lips, your gentle eyes,
Your beauty, I can’t deny.
My love for you is ever strong,
Our bond, it will never be gone.
Your gentle touch, your loving heart,
Our love will never be apart.
Your beauty cause my heart to sing,
Your grace, my heart it will always bring.
Your beauty, it is so divine,
Our love, in it I shine.
Your beauty, it is so sublime,
It’s you, that I forever climb.
Your beauty, it is so divine,
Your love, with it I align.
write a rhyming romance poem
My desire for beauty grows each day,
Girlfriend of mine, you take my breath away,
Your eyes like emeralds, shining so bright,
And your lips are so soft, just right,
Your beauty knows no bounds,
It’s no wonder my heart pounds,
My love for you grows, with each passing hour,
Our love will last through sun and shower.
write a rhyming creative romance poem
Your eyes, so bright and blue,
A delicate beauty, to view
Your smile like a gentle breeze
Your laugh, a sweet symphony
When I’m away, I’m still with you
Your beauty, a song I strum
For you, I have a special fondness
Your spirit, a boon I succumb
Your grace, a blessing of light
Your face, a glorious sight
Your heart, a vessel of love
My feelings, from above
Like a rose, you fill the air
Your beauty, a thing I can’t compare
Your love, a warmth I can’t resist
This feeling, I can’t dismiss
My heart, I give to you
A love, I can’t construe
My arms, I wrap around you
Our love, I hope we renew
write a rhyming creative love poem
A romance so sweet, a tale of two hearts
A love that never fades or falls apart
We spend our days together, side by side
Exploring and learning, with each other we confide
We laugh together and we kiss and hug
The joy of our love is always enough
Our story grows more beautiful with each day
We carry our love in every way
Our time together is always so divine
Our hearts are forever intertwined
We’re connected in ways that no one can see
Our love is always here, just you and me
write a rhyming creative romance poem
As I look into your eyes,
it’s like a starry night sky
The love that I feel for you,
is sure to never die.
Whenever we are together,
it’s like nothing else matters
Your beauty, your touch,
I could never be madder.
You make me feel so alive,
my heart is full of glee
Your love has changed my life,
it’s like a dream come true to me.
Our love has grown so strong,
I’m in awe of how it’s been
It keeps me safe and warm,
like a magic spell you’ve spun.
I love you more than words can say,
This is true
write a short rhyming creative romance poem
My love for you grows more each day
An emotion that is here to stay
Your eyes are like stars in the night
Your beauty takes away my fright
Your touch is like a gentle breeze
Your kiss makes my heart skip a beat
The way you look at me so tenderly
Makes me feel so loved, eternally
Your embrace is one I will never forget
Your love for me I never regret
As I feel for you a deep connection
I am blessed with your sweet affection.
write a short modern rhyming creative romance poem
Our hearts beat in unison,
Each day a sweet surprise,
The love that we share so freely,
Grows with each sunrise.
Though we may have our differences,
We always find a way,
To make our love even stronger,
For us, everyday.
Our days are filled with laughter,
Our lives complete with bliss,
And when we’re feeling lonely,
We always have a kiss.
Our love is like a fire,
It never fades away,
It’s the one thing that’s constant,
In our lives, night and day.
write a short modern rhyming creative romance poem
My love is a sweet melody,
That I hear in the morning breeze.
It’s a song of beauty and bliss,
That fills me with a sense of peace.
My love is a warm embrace,
That keeps me safe in any place.
It’s a love that’s strong and true,
And I’ll cherish it my whole life through.
write a rhyming romance poem about hamburgers
Burgers so juicy, they make us swoon,
Lovely buns, crisp lettuce and onions soon,
We’ve shared a meal and a tender kiss,
Grateful for this moment of bliss.
The sizzle of grills, the aroma so sweet,
We’ve found love in this special treat.
Our hearts full of joy, our bellies full too,
Our love for each other is so very true.
write a rhyming romance poem about hamburgers
Burgers so divine, they make me swoon,
I just wanna be with them all afternoon.
I love the way they look and smell,
Makes my heart swell and swell.
The juicy patty, the buns so soft,
My appetite is just aloft.
I can’t help but take a bite,
Making me feel so right.
The flavor so exquisite, so succulent,
My mouth is so content.
This love affair with burgers and me,
Will never ever cease to be.
write a rhyming romance poem about hamburgers
Burger was my one true love,
Its golden brown buns made me swoon
My heart sang when I got a bite,
And I never wanted the night to end so soon.
It satisfied me from head to toe,
Its taste was more than I could ask for
Its patty so juicy and its cheese so gooey,
And it filled me with so much more.
Whenever I took a bite of it,
My heart would go on a wild ride
It made me feel so alive and happy,
And I could never find a burger so sublime.
Though it couldn’t talk or whisper sweet nothings,
It was more than enough for me
And I’ll never forget those sweet nights,
It was the best love I could ever see.
write a romance poem about hamburgers in iambic pentameter
Our love for burgers is so strong,
It’s no surprise that we belong,
We make them at home, with love and care,
Our relationship is so rare.
We’ll share a meal of burgers, fries,
And all the condiments we like,
Our love is sealed with a ketchup kiss,
We’ll never again feel bliss.
write a Free verse creative romance poem
The sun is setting,
Our love is glowing,
The stars are twinkling,
Our love is growing,
Your hand in mine,
Your heart so kind,
Our love is so divine,
It’s too beautiful to define.
write a love sonnet, creative romance poem
Your love is like a pleasant summer breeze
That whistles through the branches of the trees.
It’s gentle touch that sends shivers down my spine
Your love is deeper than the clearest brine.
Your love is like a ray of sunshine bright
That warms me through the long and chilly night.
It’s like a sunrise, bringing hope anew
Your love is something that I can’t undo.
write a Villanelle creative romance poem
The roses wilted, so did my love for her,
The sunset sky faded, but not my burning desire
Amidst a broken heart, I still loved her,
My heart once raced, and I felt so alive
But now I’m nothing, a broken mess of a man,
The roses wilted, so did my love for her,
My actions cold, yet I’m still filled with fire
Though I’m alone, I still feel your embrace
Amidst a broken heart, I still loved her,
The pain of distance, I cannot deny
But these feelings are stronger, and I can’t turn them away
The roses wilted, so did my love for her,
My heart was broken, and I couldn’t breathe
But I still wanted you, even when I couldn’t see
Amidst a broken heart, I still loved her,
The world around us, it will wither and die
But my love for you, will never expire
The roses wilted, so did my love for her,
Amidst a broken heart, I still loved her.
write a Villanelle creative romance poem
Our love, a secret never to be told
The sweetest of feelings that can’t be denied
A love so strong, it will not ever fold
The fire of our passions burning so bold
Into each others arms we will abide
Our love, a secret never to be told
A deep embrace, and a kiss that’s so cold
The feeling of love is no longer denied
A love so strong, it will not ever fold
We can’t help but to feel the stories untold
That will never be uttered nor applied
Our love, a secret never to be told
The beauty of love, that’s never been sold
The feeling of faith and not being denied
A love so strong, it will not ever fold
Though we can’t be together, our love is so bold
A secret that must forever be denied
Our love, a secret never to be told
A love so strong, it will not ever fold
write a short love letter to my crush
Dear [Crush],
I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately and I just wanted to tell you how much I care about you. Every time I see you my heart skips a beat and I can’t help but smile. I’m so lucky to know someone as wonderful as you.
You bring out the best in me and I’m grateful for that. Being with you is always so much fun and I look forward to all of our future adventures together. I want you to know that I’m here for you no matter what.
I’m so in love with you, [Crush], and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for us.
Love always,
[Your Name]
write a moving apology letter to my ex
Dear [Ex],
I want to start by saying how sorry I am for the way I acted. I never meant to hurt you, and I never wanted to be the cause of any of your pain. I know that I said and did things that made you feel bad and I regret it more than you know.
I can see now how wrong I was to take you for granted. I thought that you would always be there for me, no matter what. I never stopped to think about how my words and actions would affect you. I was so wrapped up in my own emotions that I didn’t think about how you were feeling.
I know that I can’t go back and undo all of the damage, but I want you to know that I am truly sorry. I have learned a lot from this experience and I am determined to do better in the future. I hope that one day you can forgive me and that we can find a way to move forward, in whatever way is best for both of us.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Write an epic sweet clever birthday poem iambic
Twas a day of mirth and joy,
When the birthday girl was born,
The world was bathed in love and light,
A joyous day to adorn.
The sky was bright and blue,
The stars shone down in glee,
As the birthday girl arrived,
To make the world more free.
Her smile was ever bright,
Her eyes were full of cheer,
She brought joy to all around,
Throughout each passing year.
So let us raise a glass,
In honor of this day,
For our dearest beloved,
Who brings us joy in every way.
write a friendly happy birthday poem for my niece
Happy Birthday my sweet niece,
you bring joy and delight,
Your presence is a blessing,
Your laughter a delight.
Your birthday brings us joy,
It’s a chance to celebrate,
We’re proud of all you’ve done,
And all that you create.
Happy Birthday, we wish you,
Peace, love and happiness too,
We hope you have a wonderful day,
And a great year for you.
All these love poems were written with openAI’s GPT-3
It’s pretty fun to play with, so I built a love poem generator tool so you can write custom, personalized romantic poetry, put it in a nice font against a pretty background, and send it to someone you care about…
Love poems for her
famous historical romance poetry
“How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850)
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
“Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare (1609)
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
“Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare (1609)
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea
“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron (1815)
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
“When You Are Old” by W.B. Yeats (1892)
When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
“Ode to a Nightingale” by John Keats (1819)
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
‘Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,—
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
“Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1819)
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix forever
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In another’s being mingle—
Why not I with thine?
See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;—
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
“Wild Nights! Wild Nights!” by Emily Dickinson (1861)
Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile – the winds –
To a Heart in port –
Done with the Compass –
Done with the Chart!
Rowing in Eden –
Ah – the Sea!
Might I but moor – tonight –
In thee!
“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell (1681)
Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust;
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe (1599)
Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
“I Carry Your Heart With Me” by E. E. Cummings (1952)
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
PS. I adore (good) poetry, short and strong and powerful. I’ll have to make a list of favorites – things you can memorize and recite to impress people – but for now check out christy ann martine or grab her poetry book.
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